Lost in Space: Geographies of Science FictionRob Kitchin, James Kneale A&C Black, 23.10.2005 - 224 Seiten Science fiction - one of the most popular literary, cinematic and televisual genres - has received increasing academic attention in recent years. For many theorists science fiction opens up a space in which the here-and-now can be made strange or remade; where virtual reality and cyborg are no longer gimmicks or predictions, but new spaces and subjects. Lost in space brings together an international collection of authors to explore the diverse geographies of spaceexploring imagination, nature, scale, geopolitics, modernity, time, identity, the body, power relations and the representation of space. The essays explore the writings of a broad selection of writers, including J.G.Ballard, Frank Herbert, Marge Piercy, Kim Stanley Robinson, Mary Shelley and Neal Stephenson, and films from Bladerunner to Dark City, The Fly, The Invisible Man and Metropolis. |
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... realism ( Barnes and Duncan 1992 ; Duncan and Ley 1993 ) . It is this suspicion of mimesis which makes science ... realist fiction ; it is this relationship with the ' real ' that gives it its nature as ' fiction squared ' ( Suvin 1979 ...
... realism ( Barnes and Duncan 1992 ; Duncan and Ley 1993 ) . It is this suspicion of mimesis which makes science ... realist fiction ; it is this relationship with the ' real ' that gives it its nature as ' fiction squared ' ( Suvin 1979 ...
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... realism and rational- ity . Rosemary Jackson argues that the discourse of the fantastic attempts to discuss what lies beyond language : ' Structured upon contradiction and ambi- valence , the fantastic traces in that which cannot be ...
... realism and rational- ity . Rosemary Jackson argues that the discourse of the fantastic attempts to discuss what lies beyond language : ' Structured upon contradiction and ambi- valence , the fantastic traces in that which cannot be ...
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... realism , of mimesis . Simple explanations are deferred and narrative closure resisted ; nonsense words , invisibility and incoherence are central concerns . Secondly , Jackson writes that this kind of text is antinomical ; it holds ...
... realism , of mimesis . Simple explanations are deferred and narrative closure resisted ; nonsense words , invisibility and incoherence are central concerns . Secondly , Jackson writes that this kind of text is antinomical ; it holds ...
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... realist fiction , the uncanny and the marvellous , and Armitt reads his structuralism as straining and failing to contain ... realism has been most usefully developed by critics of ' hard SF ' , that part of the genre which foregrounds ...
... realist fiction , the uncanny and the marvellous , and Armitt reads his structuralism as straining and failing to contain ... realism has been most usefully developed by critics of ' hard SF ' , that part of the genre which foregrounds ...
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... realism replaces hesitation with consistency within the text , and allows the reader to make sense of the impossible and fantastic elements of SF , though more ' speculative ' works and readers ' transformations may open up space for ...
... realism replaces hesitation with consistency within the text , and allows the reader to make sense of the impossible and fantastic elements of SF , though more ' speculative ' works and readers ' transformations may open up space for ...
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3 Geographys conquest of history in The Diamond Age | 39 |
4 Space technology and Neal Stephensbns science fiction | 57 |
5 Geographies of power and social relations in Marge Piercys He She and It | 74 |
geographical imaginings in the work of J G Ballard | 90 |
city space and SF horror movies | 104 |
the hysterical materialism of pataphysical space | 123 |
motor pirates time machines and drunkenness on the screen | 136 |
familiar geographies science fiction and popular physics | 156 |
11 Murray Bookchin on Mars The production of nature in Kim Stanley Robinsons Mars trilogy | 167 |
Frankenstein food factishes and fiction | 180 |
References | 193 |
Index | 209 |
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